Generalisms

Things Greeks like

1. Cafés

2. Hanging out in cafés

3. Beards on men

4. Taking their time, especially in cafés

4. Talking (maybe in a café, usually anywhere)

5. Families

6. Black jogging bottoms

7. Sitting, maybe in a café, maybe in front of the sea for five hours, especially if combined with twirling some beads

8. Receipts

9. Buses

10. Owning a Café, or maybe a taverna

11. Animal tramps

12. A good old protest


Things Greeks dislike

1. Edible oranges growing outside orchards

2. Cheap beer

3. Having to hurry

4. Taxes

5. Politicians

6. The ECB when combined with 4 and 5

7. Winter

8. Timers on water heaters

9. Missing a nap

10. Smoking bans

11. Turkish special forces, disguised as sea sponges, laying silently just off shore, ready to swim ashore when the nation is unawares and steal some goats. Hence all the military bases.

12. Damian Rice